Shanarc Archaeology comprises a number of highly qualified and experienced archaeologists, ready to deliver you all the archaeology services you may need.
Our team includes:
Seán Shanahan BA MSc MIAI, Managing Director
Seán graduated with an honours degree in archaeology and philosophy from NUI Galway.
He has more than 20 years of experience working in commercial archaeology. He is a license eligible director and also holds an honours Master’s Degree in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing from NUI Maynooth. He has directed numerous archaeological excavations in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Seán started his archaeological consultancy in 2008 and has steadily grown the business year on year. He employs a diverse team of professionals that offer a suite of services from professional advice, small-scale desktop assessments, EIA reports for large-scale infrastructural projects, built heritage assessments, geophysical surveys and major fieldwork projects.
He established Shanarc Archaeology and is proud of how it has grown to be one the leading archaeological companies in Ireland.
Thaddeus Breen (Hons) BA, MA, Senior Archaeologist
Thaddeus graduated with an honours degree from University College Dublin. He is a licence-eligible director and also holds an MA in archaeology and a City & Guilds certificate in photography.
Thaddeus has been working on archaeological excavations since 1978 and directed his first excavation in 1983. He has spent more than 25 years working in commercial archaeology on sites ranging in date from Mesolithic to 19th century.
His other duties and roles include:
- Archaeological Excavation Director
- Archaeological Monitoring
- Site inspection
- Research
- Writing and editing reports
- Preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports
Edel Barry MPhil
Edel graduated from NUI Galway with a BA in Archaeology and English in 2004.
After working in the field for a few years, she took a position as architectural recorder on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage survey of County Limerick. This sparked a strong interest in built heritage, especially industrial, transport and social elements of post-medieval archaeology.
She undertook MPhil research at UCC between 2008 and 2010, and was awarded first class honours for her thesis on The Archaeology of Narrow Gauge Railways in Munster. This was followed by a Higher Diploma in ArcGIS at UCC.
Edel has several years of experience as both as a recorder on built heritage assessments and an editor, as well as a site assistant and supervisor in the field.
Duties include:
- Report writing and editing
- Built heritage assessment
- Archaeological monitoring
- Analysis of architectural fragments and building materials
- Processing artefacts and samples for specialist analysis
Jason Marchant BA (Dunelm), Post-Excavation Manager
Jason graduated with an honours degree in Archaeology from Durham University. He has been digging since 1993 (research archaeology) and has 18 years’ experience working in commercial archaeology. He has supervised numerous archaeological excavations both urban and rural, in Ireland and England; and has taught, supervised and directed various training (research) excavations in the UK. He has over four years’ experience as Post-excavation manager.
Duties include:
- Organization of Site (excavation) archive
- Digitizing of site drawings (AutoCAD)
- Processing and digitizing of 3D laser scans
- Cataloguing and assessing artefacts (finds) and environmental samples
- Processing artefacts and samples for specialist analysis
- Liaising with specialists for artefact and sample analysis
- Report writing and editing